Benefit realisation management : a practical guide to achieving benefits through change / Gerald Bradley.

Earlier edition published in 2006.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I Fundamentals and Foundations of Benefit Realisation: Today's biggest challenge; Stakeholders; Benefit realisation; Overview of benefit realisation management (BRM); Project and programme fundamentals; Some key benefit realisation management (BRM) roles and responsibilities; Planning and preparing for success. Part II The Application of BRM to Programmes and Projects: Vision and objectives; Benefits; Measures; Identifying and assessing benefit dependencies {u2013} changes; Structuring change delivery; Valuing, assessing and optimising the whole investment; The time for action {u2013} change management; Benefit tracking and reporting; Risks and issues; Governance, programme assurance and gateways; Benefit realisation management (BRM)-related documents; The benefit realisation plan (BRP); The stakeholder management strategy and plan; The blueprint; The business case; The change/benefit realisation management (BRM) process. Part III The Application of Benefit Realisation Management (BRM) to Portfolio Management: Maintaining an optimum change portfolio. Part IV Embedding Benefit Realisation Management (BRM) within an Organisation: Prerequisites {u2013} culture and leadership; Dangers of giving financial values to non-cashable benefits; How benefit realisation management (BRM) fits with other approaches; Requirements for software to support the process; Case examples; In a nutshell.

The first edition of Gerald Bradley's Benefit Realisation Management quickly established itself as the definitive, practical guide to using measures to track performance throughout the life of a project or programme; enabling organisations to eliminate wasted investment, realise more benefits and realise them earlier. The second edition takes you step-by-step through the benefits realisation process, explaining along the way, how to: Define your projects and programmes by mapping the benefits. Produce a convincing and accurate business case. Communicate the benefits and get all your stakeholders on board. Agree the measures you will use to encourage the desired behaviours, to monitor progress and to assess the ultimate success of the project or programme. Use the benefits realisation approach to understand and address the human aspects of the project, including resistance to change, training needs and new ways of working. Integrate this approach into your organisation's culture and systems The second edition includes expanded guidance on benefits realisation for portfolio management and includes revisions to the original text along with additional case study examples. The text of the latest edition is now printed in four-colour which make the detailed and varied benefit maps throughout the text immediately more striking and comprehensible. The benefits realisation management methodology fits closely with existing programme and project management approaches such as MSP and Prince 2, making it appropriate for both public and private sector environments. If you are investing heavily in change management, IT infrastructure or project working, then this book is a must-read that will justify its price many times over.